Clay Shirky Quotes - Page 4

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• Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

  Clay Shirky

  Wikipedia, Unending, Collectivism

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• Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

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  Mean, Identity, Behavior

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.71, Penguin

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• The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

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  Media, Goal, Quality

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.33, Penguin

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• The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

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  Loss, Past

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• There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

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  Lying, Together We Can, Environmental

  "A Wiki for the Planet: Clay Shirky on Open Source Environmentalism" by Alexis Madrigal, www.wired.com. August 20, 2008.

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• To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

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  Wish, Groups, Tools

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• We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

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  Mean, Organization, Groups

  "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations". Book by Clay Shirky, 2008.

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• There is no news industry.

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  News, Industry

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• When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

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  Cat, Talking, Singing

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• Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

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  Cities, Dating, Mets

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• We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

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  Moving, Collaboration, Cooperation

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• What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

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  Promise, Needs, Tools

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• For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.

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  Strong, Effort, Political

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• Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

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  Attention, Imbalance, Fame

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• The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

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  Challenges, Done, Internet

  "Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform - the numbers don't add up'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

  Clay Shirky

  Thinking, Admitting, Revolution

  "Here Comes Clay Shirky". Interview with Parul Sehgal, www.publishersweekly.com. June 21, 2010.

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• [T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

  Clay Shirky

  Self, Giving, Pages

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